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As the news came in that the sniper[s] had been caught, and that the Alabama shooting was connected, MSNBC tried vainly to give us a sense of where these events were taking place... and made Mississippi the new Alabama.

Chewbaccus Sunday Oct 27 01:48 PM

I actually used to do that myself. They're almost a mirror image of each other. I eventually gave up and just said "there".

~mike

blase Sunday Oct 27 03:26 PM

Bah, who knows the east coast states anyway

It's best to live in the west - square states rule!

goethean Sunday Oct 27 06:15 PM

Hey...it happens. I consider myself good at geography and just found out that Colorado and Wyoming's position were the reverse of what I thought they were.

edit: not even me, apparently. is it innis or innes? googling it brings up the same sites for both. the infamous msnbc image spells it innis, but then they spelled the first name wrong too.Nic Name Sunday Oct 27 10:50 PM

"That place is a complete haven for international terrorists," he told co-host Bill Press. "Even their own retired security guys say it's a complete haven. We . . . need lectures from some people, not from Soviet Canuckistan."

MSNBC spokeswoman Alana Russo said from New York the network has not received any calls of complaint.

OTTAWA — The United States has agreed to back off from its controversial policy of fingerprinting and screening Canadian travellers of Arab origin, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said today.

He told the House of Commons he got the news from Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador.

"He informed me that in the future Canadians carrying Canadian passports will not be treated any differently depending on where they were born or for any reason whatsoever," the minister said.

elSicomoro Thursday Oct 31 10:04 PM

*snaps his fingers*

Damnit...he seemed to be improving. He really did...he was making progress. He seemed to have mellowed, even with his battle with Donahue in July. Then he has to come out of his mouth with some mess like that.